Afghanistan on Google Maps, Thanks To India
Kabul, Afghanistan could be located on Google Maps as two major criss-cross roads and some scattered neighbourhood names till some days ago. Just this much only.
That was a thing of past. Recently, Google uncovered its first detailed map of Afghanistan, drawing on the work of amateur cartographers to highlight a nation that has become one of the world’s major geopolitical flashpoints.
On the new map, Kabul is shown in great specificity, with roads demarcated down to neighbourhood blocks and points of interest like parks, schools, hospitals, cafés and embassies.
The new map is the result of Wikipedia-style crowd-sourcing: Inputs came from a variety of ordinary Web users who used a tool called Google Map Maker for more details....
That was a thing of past. Recently, Google uncovered its first detailed map of Afghanistan, drawing on the work of amateur cartographers to highlight a nation that has become one of the world’s major geopolitical flashpoints.
On the new map, Kabul is shown in great specificity, with roads demarcated down to neighbourhood blocks and points of interest like parks, schools, hospitals, cafés and embassies.
The new map is the result of Wikipedia-style crowd-sourcing: Inputs came from a variety of ordinary Web users who used a tool called Google Map Maker for more details....
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